MrGifster i’m not defending what they did, but you have to remember this is a corporation, if they want to fire someone they will, if they want to do anything they can legally, remember they are not breaking the law, what they’re doing is wrong, but not illegal
@@@ sean sands... maybe he likes to eat foods or heat his house or pay his council tax. OR MAYBE HE WAS FRIGHTENED THEY WOULD STOP HIS BENEFIT entitlement
@@danieIlondon What an absolute idiotic statement. Just study hard and start your own business? In what world is it realistic for Everyone to start their own businesses? There will always be a need for lower end jobs and there will always be a need for workers. Being Lazy is one thing. Being exploited and abused is another. You'd be wise to learn the difference.
but...why? have you ever worked with your hands before? this is literally just america. these people got treated good compared to most american workers.
The only people shocked by this undercover footage are people who don't HAVE TO take a minimum pay job. Newsflash, it looks like this in almost EVERY SINGLE large warehouse!
I worked at MandM Direct last christmas and it was the same, we were promised work and a job all through til this year and everybody got dropped instantly after christmas. The conditions were just as bad.
it's competition...obviously, everyone has to lower to these standards to compete with them. Luckily here in Italy, we don't have the SAME situation..I'd say we are 1/3 of how bad is it there...
Massive respect for all those workers. They’re people, not animals nor robots and they deserve to be treat like people. Disgusting what I saw. 3 strikes? It’s not baseball lads. Big up all those workers and many workers facing that sort of disgusting behaviour
I worked at Booker and they where exactly like this, then I worked at Ocado and similar behaviour from coordinators, thinking they are the boss. Ocado where good at pretending to care and some managers where decent people, however they repeatedly messed up peoples wages, they took away two of are holiday days and made us buy them back. Got made redundant 8n October because they didn't require Me anymore.
@@corysmith3447 "2003 era" ahaha mans like 40 and thinks hes been down the mines. Bro we had far better workers rights and protections back then while we were part of the EU and under labor....
Danny you’re not going to buy from sports direct or JD sports, so you’re just going to buy from another company from overseas? Which by the way, endorses child labour
@@seansands424 and some as you say (menials) have their hand forced bye the powers that be to take this kind of jobs or they have their money stopped, makes you think are the job centre managers in it with these agencies, figures figures figures
@@marktaylor2105 of course they are, JC is part of the DWP. i was signing on for a short while before getting my current job, and the amazon fulfilment just opened at the airport, and my local job centre was pretty much frog marching job seekers to amazon. luckily i got a job on my own within a couple of weeks before it happened to me! they tried, though...
As a fully licenced SIA badge holder and security officer of over 20 years JD sports your security practices are ridiculous, checking everyone 100% of the time is harassment.
Me too sia security for over 20 years...an search on the person without justification is actual physical assault again taken aside or physically held say in an office is false detention and imprisonment accusing someone of fraud an criminal offence and accusation incidentally without evidences or taking the appropriate action is defamation slander injurious to the person and its all of this and possibly more if found unproven...meaning even i security if asked to behave in such an unlawfull fashion would only last about 5 mins with these people..
@@ericjarvie Its like the SIA gives the guard the training they need to do the job then you go work for a company that abuses that training given, SIA was brought in to clean up the image of security in the UK, well they are certainly good at giving them selves big bonuses while nearly all guards slave away on living wage on some shitty concentration camp or building site.
@Michael Solomon but I bet there board members get paid more than you'll ever see in your life time and probably steal stuff from the company all the time - work from home while sleeping in, have a meeting at an expensive restaurant where it's closer to play than work and its all put on the company credit card, etc. With a company that large net profit doesn't have to be huge at the individual store level for the guys at the top to see huge amounts of money coming in.
nicholasowenjones - They put in the work to get to that position. Or brought value to the business to get the position. If you’re doing line packaging work you’ve got nothing to compare with someone of that position, period.
@@matthewdooley9046 he kind of does have a choice its more discretion if he sees they been working flat out and catching there breath back for a few mins just let it go if they are experienced workers and it becomes a point where they are doing it just to be lazy then thats when you got to talk to them but being her first week as well they are going to get tired quickly he shouldnt of made them work like that hes a terrible supervisor i dont see leadership i see a guy on a power trip a good supervisor would of given them a hand and woulldnt pushed new workers that hard right away its a golden rule ive always stuck too i never let anyone do something where i wouldn't be willing to do my self or haven't done before
Won't help the country but I hear what you're saying. At the very least I hope most leave and steal whatever they can from that miserable fucking place.
That's the issue, they're ON the dole. The government thought it would be a grand idea of putting these "lazy good for nothings" to work and make it mandatory to pickup any job you can or getting your benefits cut. I have a friend who was on jobseekers allowance for a long time and had to take up working at places like Travis Perkins for 6 months FOR FREE in the hopes of getting hired after this testing period. Of course they let him go afterwards and said he wasn't a right fit or whatever. So they have a revolving door of free labor, just rejecting any applicants they get and the government/ corporations line their pockets a little more. I really don't miss being unemployed or working minimum wage jobs. It's slavery re-branded, only at least 200+ years ago they actually gave you food and shelter, but now they pay you barely enough to afford food and shelter for yourself. Humanity is still making progress.. right?
I can say from my own experience this is true. Definitely felt like scum working there. Everyone was on knife edge not knowing what silly thing they were going to get sacked for. It felt like a prison camp. The only good thing about the place was the people I met
@@That0Homeless0Guy ,i have not bought at any of them for a long time. I have nice trainers and a veg patch in my garden. but yes i do feed the beast in one way or another, everyday probably, I also run a business and iwould not use them methods, to motivate staff, incentives and security work for most. if not sack the lazy beggars
Do people not realise that for most of us under 30 this isn't even eye opening, especially if you work in hospitality. This is shitty, and it's life for most of us 😭
@@BulletproofGOAT Yes, People working construction in the arizona heat get 30 mins in a 16 hour day to take a break and none of them are complaining. Working inside a building for 12 hours on your feet is rather reasonable.
And therein lies the flaw with the all-too-often touted illogic: “Just work harder!” If the privileged in our society knew for even a second just how difficult the lives of the working class are, they would vote and/or campaign to do something about it. Those who do know unfortunately don’t care.
I got a disciplinary for charging my phone in the staff room. My manager threatened to phone the police for theft of electricty. I was naive 18 yr old but I wish I'd told him to phone the police. Then I asked a manager for help because a customer needed another size of tshirt and i wasnt allowed to leave the spot. Got a mouthful for interrupting him, so I just walked out the door. Twelve years ago and i still think about!
The charging of phone situation happened to someone I knew.Where I can see the point to a extent ,the rule was not the same for all workers.One guy I worked with was reprimanded in the managers office for charging his phone in the staff room.He said while being lectured he noticed the managers phone on the desk ,with the lead dangling down and the phone being charged,blatantly in front of him.While technically you are using works electricity to charge the phone,it was basically one rule for the office gods and one for the peasants.
As a Warehouse Manager here in America I can tell you I'm appalled. Absolutely a shame to treat your staff this way. I genuinely love my crew and would do anything for them, and they would do anything for me. Shame on you JD Sports, and other British Ops teams that mimic this disgusting management style.
It's a genuine problem across the UK. It stems from pencil pushers being jobsworths and trying to make a name for themselves. I know someone who was genuinely sick, but as they worked in food service had a legal obligation to report it, went sick, came back, final warning. they should have just ignored the laws and kept working.
it is good you have this working relationship with your fellow employees as you are paid higher but still an employee , and buiding the bonds in your crew keep folk happy in work , build themup , make them proud about what they do , this is the secret to workplace harmony , jd follow a completely different path
JD and other companies are like the job centre staff, capita asos etc.. treating us as sub human cattle in old victorain wirk houses ran by profit nazis
i work at the same jd warehouse now and i can honestly say nothing has changed, still not allowed to sit down at all, still have to keep the kpi above target and the supervisors speak to recruitment staff like children, they still have thumbprint scanners you have to use every time you enter, every break and when you leave, still massive ques and they still have the 3 strike system, the worst thing for me is the constant standing up for 12 hours, it does feel like prison and its sad to watch this video from 2016 and nothing has changed, channel 4 need to do another undercover on this place because you would all be shocked at how little it has changed, i can honestly say im never buying anything from JD after working in the warehouse for 3 weeks and counting (until i get sacked for some stupid reason)
Not gonna use JDs again either....the profits are kept for the people at the top who don't do any hard work. Keep your workforce happy, run your ship efficiently.
Didn’t notice it was 6yrs ago the film was made. Terrible that nothing’s changed but why would it. The owners are likely Tory donors and people want their shite clothes with logos on incessantly. Baffles me how the amount of clothing is constantly produced. Sorry you have to work there friend. Best of luck.
We need more journalism like this in the society, it is definitely effective in terms of creating changes, let's embrace and support such journalism with our comments to tv channels and government entities!
you clearly don't understand what freedom is. you can enslave people with more than physical chains and cages, some might think this is a side issue, but actually its at the core of the problem, wealth is created through physical endeavour, if you want wealth without the endeavour you have to steal it, slavery was a way of stealing others wealth creating endeavour, it's highly inneficient though and your responsible for the wealfare of your slaves, much better to create a system where all your slaves think they are free and you use other methods to get your hands on the wealth there efforts create. you also have to get creative in how you justify this theft.
Yep ! That's a huge problem here in the USA too ! Pathetically lame PEOPLE who don't have any control over THEIR own life THEY get the feeling of power to control and execute THEIR will upon others who are perceived as below them in the power chain !!!!
Generally the worst managers are the ones working in unskilled work. Because they have zero skills they always feel very insecure and take it out on everyone else. Being so poorly skilled also means that there is very little in the way of hierarchy so they fear for their jobs as they're just as disposable as anyone else and they know it. Where I work, a metal fabrication and engineering workshop, the labourers are much more skilled and harder to replace than any manager in the JD sports warehouse. They're also paid £12 an hour basic. Even as a labourer for my workshop, these managers would be completely out of their league. Talk about insecure.
mrdojob I used to work in a horticultural nursery and the manager there was awful, constantly nit picking and if you went upstairs 1 minute early you would be called into the office. They even threatened to dock people’s wages, this isn’t the 1970s.
I worked in a Wincanton warehouse in London for Sainsbury's. This report does not even shock me as I literally turned up to work one day and was let go. I am glad I walked away happily as I hated it but thought I was being picky or I needed experience. I walked away and a few years late being more picky, I applied for a position in an office and asked for 25k annual income but was instead offered 28k. 3k more than I asked and that is how good companies work, they also only demanded 1 day in the office minimum and I said I would be happy to come in 5 days. People need to realise they are far more valuable than their desperate situation might allow them to think.
I have worked in places exactly like this as a line worker, picker, and a security guard. It made me downright suicidal. Quitting and learning basic coding was the best thing I have done in my life.
@@pflernakthere is still demand even for basic web coders (provided one takes time to cobble together at least some basic project to show during the interview). I used to convert designs into html,css,jquery etc., now I'm helping with front-end as well.
I heard horror stories when I was on job seeker's allowance. Lads had been sent to warehouses 40 miles away, had to pay for their own transport, usually starting before 6am and once they got there it was a 50/50 chance they would actually get any work that day. There were white boards with names and hours on it. If your name wasn't on the board, you went home with no pay. This happens in warehouses all over the UK. The job center itself was just as bad, a cattle market. I was bounced around training courses for nine months. I'd been sent to "CV workshops" five times. Six hours sitting in an office just to walk out with a new CV each time. I quickly realized I was only there to keep the workers at the job center in a job.
I made my CV back in secondary and have only made adjustments when needed to input details of my employment experiences. Why are you struggling with creating a "passable" CV?? If that's the case, how are you going to get a job?
@@MrFreebrowsingis that really wrong? They don't send people on pip on these courses its just the ones that are allegedly already looking for work (jobseekers). People go on benefits designed to support you while looking a job and then complain when they're told they need to look for work. The fact you can fail and still not starve is amazing.
I remember i got let go from a job, still getting through the issues i had with manager i told job coach about, the work coach told me, right, i need in the next 2 days, go out and sign up to like 4 - 6 agencies a day after I lost my job, well suffering from Sever Social Anxiety and doing something like that would take me under 7 days, but within 2? not even 48 hours, he insisted i had to go in person, couldn't do it over the phone the guy was a complete asshole, didn't care at all, oh and he signed me up for a bunch of useless courses that i'm far to "Qualified for" literally done so many courses previously on CV, interviews etc, that everything they try to teach me, I already know. so just wasting even more time i could be at home searching for jobs.
What sort of stuff? ...you go there to work, to do a job you follow systems and rules = work. You work 12 hour shifts and you get time off, there are laws and regs. Brits have no idea how the other half live, in the rest of the world.
@@jakoflynn2560 we developed hard won employment laws over many many decades to prevent the exploitation of workers by unscrupulous employers. I think you will find even the orange man who presided over the US at the moment is anti immigration on the basis that it undermines American wages via cheap imported labour driving down wage rates and that these immigrants are often exploited in the work place via practices that the average American wouldn't tolerate. Cheap exploited labour in unregulated working environments provides unfair competitive advantage over responsible industries in the same sector who adhere to decent working practices, pay and conditions. Before you reply that I'm racist ect, no I'm not, I'm just pointing out what is happening and reasons as to why it's happening and it's detrimental effects to everybody.
@@michaeltrobinson729 Wild Will, I have a job, I have been in full time employment since gaining a degree 33 years ago so I'm afraid your comment has little relevance pertaining to my employment status. You are of course welcome to try another cheap shot but please forgive me if I am inclined not to respond because as Mark Twain once said "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience".
I have a degree and forced to work here, it truly is awful. Why not quit? The warehouse is located in a town with lots of poor areas and people are desperate for money. Treated like shit just so the people at the top can squeeze as many pennies as possible without killing its workers. Just enough to keep them coming back.
Yup, and then you hear people say "work to get yourself out of it" or "there's other jobs out there" etc sometimes you can be in a hopeless position and that's it.
You should be able to queue 15\20 mins before the end of your shift, that way it's the companies time and you're being paid.....no way I would waste 30 mins per shift WAITING to leave or start!! It's their policy so why are staff penalised!?
Kodiakbear They have no relationship with the worker only that they empower you.if you don't confirm your gone It's going back to victorian times and these company's are the new work houses. Anyone with any self pride would not entertain going back after a stint and in turn cutting the parasite agencies fund supply I had the misfortune of doing three weeks in 2011 as I had been laid off but it felt like three months all I can say it was an experience not to be repeated
@@kodiakbear3076 if they had to pay you to stand there doing nothing, they'd quickly stop the searches. It'd be cheaper to lose some stuff and search just two dozen heads per shift. Clock out should be after search queue.
So UA-cam recommends me this video almost 2 years after it was first uploaded... okay then. By the way, most warehouses are like this whatever the shop. The UK is a joke with the way it exploits its citizens when we're one of the richest nations on earth.
All this about one of the richest national in the planet. Have seen our debt. It is the second biggest in the world after USA. We are the 6 highest in GDP but second in debt. Scary how much debt we actually have.
Worked for Amazon UK for 5 years and it was exactly the same, jobs are just rare to come by in a lot of areas and that forces people into this type of work, if the company hadn't ruined my mental health i'd probably still be there
@@LegaliseTeddySex you would think that in a better and more friendly environment the productivity of the workforce would naturally increase instead of this inhumane and disrespectful treatment from these bosses whose power has got to their heads. Hope your mental health and happiness is recovering positively. 👍
Zero hour contract agency work should be outlawed. I did it for a long time and you have no rights, no support and no security. It's not just JD or sports direct, it's everywhere. Literally every single agency I worked for was the same, and I worked for a few seeing as I was just disposed of when they were done with me. Dangling the carrot tactics, threats of dismissal, threats of being 'benched', closely monitored performance statistics, prison like security, salaried staff whipping you all day and night, working hours for free, the list goes on it's just relentless. At the end of it all you don't even get paid well, if they remember to pay you at all!
Remember when I got laid off from a well paid job on building site after 4 years. Got a temp job at a warehouse, and it was exactly like this. I only lasted two weeks before I ended up in a heated argument with a bully supervisor who used to try and intimidate other workers; definitely didn’t work on me. Wouldn’t ever recommend working in a warehouse unless you have no other option
I did night shifts in a warehouse for a few weeks to save up a bit of money. Almost exactly the same conditions. Only thing that kept me going was the fact I knew I was leaving very soon.
I’m sure they did undercover video on them few years ago. About how many steps one takes on shift was like they walk 10 miles while scanning and the bleeping noise
Got sacked from a jd sports store for using my mobile phone to actually bring delivery into the store for them to let me in through back door in the loading bay, safe to say best thing they have ever done for me, now earning twice as much
I pledge, I won't step in another JD sport shop. I do buy sports gear a lot. Not from there anymore. I too once worked in smiliar circumstances. I have worked hard to get out of there. I feel it too real.
The problem is that not buying will only affect the workers in warehouse, for affective change new laws are needed and for that to be likely we need a new party in charge
Sounds a lot like a company I used to work for. The branch I worked at was closed down, employees offered a position at another branch miles away or take redundancy. All but two took redundancy. The woman from HR said she had never met a workforce so happy to be losing their jobs.
Andrew_koala That attitude is absolutely fucking revolting. Some of these people may be young or have low skill and no alternative but to take a job like this to make ends meet. Just because someone is there by “consent”, does that means they are not entitled to be treated like a human being and not constantly degraded? Everyone, no matter where they work should be entitled to be treated with respect, especially when owners of big companies can be very exploitative individuals, making bank without being remotely ethical. This has absolutely nothing to do with political correctness, it’s about basic empathy and your line of thinking is very sociopathic and exploitative. I’d suggest you get some therapy if these are truly your beliefs.
16-19 They think they know all, and now who is the stupid one, they are to stupid look what they put up with and they do nothing we wont have put up with this in the 70,s menials are so stupid no back bone
@@ACombineSoldier aww did you get offended by that statement? They guys only stating fact. Dont see what grammer had anything to do with his argument, could you please explain?
My sister worked here for a week on 12 hour shift and her ankles were swollen and red cause they would not let her sit down and the supervisors were constantly on her back so she left.
Dont worry, it gets better. See when you take that delicious £200 wage home you get to put it into rent or mortgage, both of which are raised by engineered scarcity in the housing market. Or you can put it in the bank where you'll get an interest rate which doesn't match inflation ... strangely this is the norm among all banks, almost like they got together and had a bit of a chat. (Im not suggesting a cartel though, cause cartels are highly illegal. Any banker doing that would end up in prison with all the other bad bankers who got locked up) Anyway, the good news to all of this is that should the banks, which kindly store (and make profit off) your (devalued) cash, ever flounder you don't have to worry, because they'll simply nationalize their debts. Just like they nationalize their profits .... yep. I know this because I live in Ireland, where the private debts of anglo-irish bank were gently slid across the table into the folder marked 'Irish public'. weeeee. Take care of this 40 bn tab would you. Strangely I can't remember a time where the banks placed profits in that same folder. It must have happened, its just me, i must be low on plasma again.
I worked in a Superdrug in Denton that doubled as a warehouse (despite being tiny), this is reminiscent of that. But JD Sports looks worse. Some things are familiar though. Any item we owned which the store had in stock, we had go have signed by management. The receipt too if we bought it in-store. We had to spin a wheel at the day, the options were bag search, pockets search, or no search. We were shouted at for sitting down, sometimes given formal warnings for it. People worked to the point of physical pain, and sometimes fainting. I left when they introduced QR codes to our name badges that supervisors had to scan like a product bar code to sign us in and out with...the dehumanisation was insane. The manager expected a team of 6-15 people (dependant on the rota) to get 800 orders minimum picked, packed, and put in vans for delivery in 1 day. She often pushed for 1000 though. She would sit at her desk in the back office half the time watching us on the CCTV cameras, which she always had open. The turnover rate was insane, naturally. As were staff stress levels. I do IT support now and I'm a lot happier.
Every warehouse in the UK is like this. Warehouses is where dreams come to die. Seen so many young fellas lose the hope in their eyes and turn to mindless zombies in a few months...
Brits have gathered their wealth by exploiting and looting other nations. From India too. So their reputation is not very high anyway. It´s just their own grandiose delusion that still keep them feeling above everyone else. It´s not just about the government, it´s also their companies and local communities that carry on that attitude and views.
hahaha I think we're quite a ways off floating corpses down the Thames (or any other river in the country) and then drinking/bathing in the rancid water filled with hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, amoebic dysentery, other waterborne diseases, and a variety of skin afflictions. in fact, Cholera (amongst most of the others) is actually eradicated in UK. so... does that make you a liar? or a fucking moron who did no research? I think both probably apply +M TheWolf I actually suspect M TheWolf mistook India to be a different country. it follows logically. he's that stupid, clearly
This treatment of employees in this day & age is just totally unacceptable, I will most definitely never ever buy from JD Sports again after watching this! What a miserable existence these poor workers have, (apart from the heartless managers) I feel so very sorry for them :(
I worked at a well known high street fashion store in 2000 - 2003 in the Trafford Centre. Where we were bullied into getting shoppers to open store cards. The target was 1 a day on a shift. Failure to do so resulted in disciplinary action. Also physically disciplined by management twisting your arm to cause pain. One day I opened 10 and was hailed as a star employee, next day I got none and was put on the named and shame board. If you didn't get a customer to open a store card by the end of your shift, you had to stay late, unpaid. The culture of a threatening atmosphere by management was disgusting. My mental health deteriorated but as I needed a job you end up being trapped. I would say there are thousands of companies in the UK with horrendous conditions.
The only reason they take it from them is because there is literally no other option nowadays, you have to just put up with shitty jobs like this because people are worth nothing nowadays.
Completely agree and it's down to the governments near complete disregard for the interests of low paid workers. I've done some low paid zero hours jobs for a while before and the difference in power between the worker and the employer is totally unfair. We are supposed to be a democracy ruled by the people, yet the rulers sell out the people to these big companies to make the UK 'a more attractive place for investment'. We are slowly moving back to a feudal system.
its very unlikely there are many workers making half of those products. robots are a lot more common than ppl think. theyve been mainstream for *at least* a decade in manufacturing
zero hour contracts should be made illegal, this is a disgusting way to treat people. Owners, CEO's, Directors, etc of these companies should be held accountable and should spend some time at his majesty's pleasure when breaking employment law, maybe then the message will get through. In business (I have been a business owner), I have always treated people as I would like to be treated, with some respect and dignity.
this video is a "snapshot" of what is and has been quite common practice in English warehouses/logistics/distribution centres for a great many years. i have personal experience from 20 years back...and it saddening to see how long it taken for the issue to be highlighted in the mainstream media.
@@vincentdeguard4726 That is very true, in Swansea Wales Amazon operate the same way the workers are like robots who are made to run wild around the warehouse with strict targets, there are many youths in Swansea who need work but would rather sell weed etc than become a bullied robot for a multi billion pound company.
If I got three strikes and was sacked on the slot by some big headed supervisor I would make it well worth it to Him sacking Me he would think twice about sacking anyone else
Hey Micky do you understand the basic concept of Communism? I’m not talking about what failed communist states ultimately became. I’m talking about the basic premise of communism “the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.” Everyone is equal and everyone benefits from their labour and no one is taken advantage of by a capatalist class. It is capitalism that has created this monster, not Socialism dude.
It's neither communism nor capitalism you pair of wankers...This is just called greed. The top dogs at jd set out the rules for their factories and all ye can fffffoocus on is your own little political worlds. It's greed end of
nah i'd risk being unemployed and homeless if not jailed before i'd ever let another man talk to me like that, I promise with everything in my his jaw wouldn't work properly for the rest of his life.
every job I have ever held has had a 1 to 3 month probationary period where you could be fired for any reason, the only people I ever saw get fired and not quit earned being fired. that isnt to say their are employers like this who treat their employers like replaceable parts, the bad employers are almost always known to everyone in the area and they have a harder time employing people.
@@kercchan3307 the problem is your employer can sack you in the first 2years without any reason and have no employment rights. If have full employment rights from beginning you still can be sacked but employer has to give reason and treat you fairly.
@@grantdennison69 I am not condoning the bad employers, but the employer always holds the power. the government cannot force anyone to hire people just to appease a group of people. If a government tries this they can just shut down and leave the area/country, close down bank accounts etc. thankfully employees talk and word of bad employers gets around really fast eventually leaving the bad employers having to look extremely hard just to fill their requirements
@@barbaracrickley6191 I'm one and I would hate to know how we would have been treated if we didn't have union. Even our employer said if didn't have union we just give notice and change shift. But we now have great shift cause we all stick together. People need to start joining unions and stick together. I used to work on aircraft but now on trains cause pays more and that's down to the unions.
This is exactly the same situation as the DHL warehouse that supplies Primark in Thrapston Northamptonshire. It's a harsh draconian environment that is capable of sucking the joy and life from the most positive of souls.
This is happening to 99% of people working for agency's on zero hour's contracts. A number of documentaries have been made, about different companies and nothing ever happens.
I work for Aldi warehouse and we are treated really well. I'm shocked to hear comments saying all warehouses are like this as I've only ever worked in one. Come work for Aldi, good money as well.
I once worked in Asda warehouse for a little while in between a career change. It was pretty good tbh. Pay was really good considering the type of job and they treated you well.
Many years ago I worked in JD Sports, Cheshire Oaks as a weekend job. At the end of every shift when the store closed, the doors were locked and you couldn’t leave until 45 minutes after (unpaid), as the ‘standards’ needed to be maintained. This basically meant tidying up and ensuring the clothes were displayed correctly. This is despite every single staff member (excluding management) making sure this was done throughout the day. After two weekends, I demanded to leave and just walked out. They refused to open the doors even though I resigned from my job on the spot.
I remember working there. Was sent home because I sat down for 5 mins. They said I was recorded on cameras and I needed to go home. This was after bouncing me around the warehouse on different jobs 4 times and confusing me by giving me so many responsibilities. If I don’t find a new responsibility fast, then I’m at fault.
Boycott JD Sports, We the People need to fight back against companies that don't treat their employees with such disrespect. We need to send a message. Not to mention the fire hazard queuing out of the building.
Trouble is benefits scrounging chavs will always shop there. Especially the ones that accessorise with Special Brew at 8 in the morning while shagging their own cousins
WHAT A SHOCKING WAY TO TREAT PEOPLE, ITS A DISGRACE, i am so sorry for these poor workers, its hell for them! and i am glad the Government is intervening
Government intervening that's what they say to make it look like their doing something,once it's old news it'll be back to the same 21st century work house, I'm afraid to say.
I have worked for GXO riverisland for 5 years and the conditions are pretty much the same. Scary thing is this documentary came out 6 years ago. Fingerprint scanners, KPIs, filthy conditions, agency workers asked to go home after half a shift we also have a similar three strike rule. Unbelievable 😢
Should have gone to college and learned a trade then. Thanks to doing exactly that, me and a couple of other lads at the same company was clearing 400 a week after tax and NI, in my early 20s 😂 (Side bit of info)
this is why people quit their jobs, because of minor mistakes like this leads to normal people to get a sack, it is the 21st century for god sake, why can't jd and other companies do better in the work environment, this is not the sort of work i will never ever join, it's like modern day african slavery
@@jonny5777 slavery and torcher and overworking act. a job should be something you enjoy and like doing at a reasonable pace and the wage should be justified how much strength is put into it and the knowledge input. ur not disturbing the peace, ur disturbing a human being.
K Scott I think I did. Good job education is free in our country and we are all afforded the opportunity to study as much as we want and can choose the Life we live right? Work hard at school and get a good job. It’s simple. Do you think the previous generations moaned as much as we did? My grandad was a miner for 50 years, he didn’t moan just got on with it.
unfortunately they want to pay us the minimum wage but expect people to give 110% all day everyday and if you can't do that then they will give your job to someone else. I worked in stocktaking and we would be lucky to get 8 hours a day paid work, they even take the 30 mins break (15 mins in some stores) from our wages. we never got paid for travel which meant we usually had to sit in the van for around 3-5 hours to the job and 3-5 hours back, sometimes we would spend more hours traveling than working! I worked there for 3 years and never missed a shift and I ended up getting fired for miscounting toilet paper! I think it is disgraceful how people are treated in work now, the majority of staff I worked with had drug or alcohol problems simply due to the stress of the job, the company then put a policy in place so if anyone was caught drinking on a business trip (even after work) they would fire the full van of 9 people even if the others were in there rooms! I complained to the manager saying that it would be unfair for me to be fired because of other peoples actions which resulted in me getting a verbal warning. No wonder people have problems with depression when we are treated like this just to be paid the absolute minimum they can.
@@alistairstuart2009 well if people are sacked unfairly which is the case if you are punished for other peoples actions, then simply use your right to take the company to an unfair dismissal tribunal which will be a slam dunk under the above reasons.
@@TheRealEraser Nope. What is Unfair Dismissal? Unfair dismissal is where an employee claims against an employer that the decision to dismiss was unfair. To qualify to bring an unfair dismissal claim in the Employment Tribunal a person must meet a number of criteria: They must be an employee (rather than self-employed or, in most cases, working through an agency) They must normally have at least two years continuous employment (subject to certain exceptions) They must be in employment that has a sufficient connection to Great Britain They are within the 3 month time primary limit for bringing a claim to the Employment Tribunal
Yep I work at a place they paid me minimum wage so they got minimum. They recently put it up to 1.20 over minimum so I now work a little harder but ive now been told I've probably only got another 2 weeks work and I'll be back to square one at another place. Hate being on agency but it's the only way to find work now adays
@@dylanmurphy572 they have to work somewhere to pay bills. Getting another job isn't exactly easy so there isn't much choice. Also minimum wage workers are given a ridiculous workload and are not paid nearly enough
@@StepByStepStudiothe Tesco Distrubution I worked at (not as an agency worker, thankfully) was 80% Eastern European workers, even those employed by Tesco. 99p Stores was the same, a large proportion of the management were Polish or Romanian.
Lol you think if it was a different government this company would act differently 🤣🤣🤣. You think that because Tories are in government that that's a good enough excuse to treat people like this.
I honestly wouldn't last an hour working somewhere like that. I'm a machine operator in a factory and used to working at a fast pace and having targets to achieve, also being uncomfortably hot in the summer but the flip side is we're paid fairly with a generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, nearly 2 weeks off for Christmas and a decent company pension. We are also treated with respect by management . If a supervisor or manager working at our company spoke to people in the manner shown in this video then they would rightly be out of a job. How companies can get away with this in 2023 is a disgrace!
It's still happening in 2023, I can assure you. Royal Mail are one of the worst offenders. They treat their staff and also their customers like dirt. We've regressed back to Victorian attitudes. Bullying, intimidation, favouritism, lying to staff, spying on them ( sorry, tracking them ! ). Awful way to treat a workforce, all because of greed
I worked for JD Sports warehouse in Rochdale at the summer of 2017 and this reporting is 100% accurate.
why work for them
maybe because he needed to pay bills or eat?
MrGifster i’m not defending what they did, but you have to remember this is a corporation, if they want to fire someone they will, if they want to do anything they can legally, remember they are not breaking the law, what they’re doing is wrong, but not illegal
@@@ sean sands... maybe he likes to eat foods or heat his house or pay his council tax.
OR MAYBE HE WAS FRIGHTENED THEY WOULD STOP HIS BENEFIT entitlement
@@frank1847 How can he a ford it working for jd sports especially the wages they pay
Watches evidence with own eyes
JD: "doesn't happen mate"
Insulting
@Bayley Massey Present age ;( ;(
fucking cunts
They do it on purpose, to show they got you by the bulls
Amazon are the same
Owners, CEO's and Directors, etc should go to court for stuff like this. It's a disgrace that such conditions are allowed to arise.
100% they sit on billions of £'s of profit a year whilst workers are treated like this.
If thieving wasn’t inbred these days jd sports wouldn’t have to do this!
No, people should study harder in school or read marketing books and start their own business. Don’t be lazy and expect better pay.
@@danieIlondonSo you think this kind of bullying and abuse is acceptable?
@@danieIlondon
What an absolute idiotic statement. Just study hard and start your own business? In what world is it realistic for Everyone to start their own businesses? There will always be a need for lower end jobs and there will always be a need for workers. Being Lazy is one thing. Being exploited and abused is another.
You'd be wise to learn the difference.
Never going to shop at JD. This is appalling I feel so sorry for the employees.
I don't feel sorry for them most of them defend their exploiters to the hilt, they are right wing working class tories, brexit!
I feel ashamed for buying from this sham company. Never again.
It's quite normal for such warehouses...
Most of them are like that. Only a matter of whether or not they get exposed.
You should stop buying groceries then
same thing - or worse - in Sports direct, to put another retailer in the same sector. sadly same thing with Amazon, one of the biggest eretailers
but...why? have you ever worked with your hands before? this is literally just america.
these people got treated good compared to most american workers.
The only people shocked by this undercover footage are people who don't HAVE TO take a minimum pay job. Newsflash, it looks like this in almost EVERY SINGLE large warehouse!
I worked at MandM Direct last christmas and it was the same, we were promised work and a job all through til this year and everybody got dropped instantly after christmas. The conditions were just as bad.
That,s why it is now a third would country
I wont last 5 minutes i,m proud of it
I was going to say the exact same thing, this is the norm.
it's competition...obviously, everyone has to lower to these standards to compete with them. Luckily here in Italy, we don't have the SAME situation..I'd say we are 1/3 of how bad is it there...
If I worked there I’d end up knocking someone out. Seriously
Well Pat so that knife to the chest didint finish you off
Knock out the managers ill do it
Youd get a strike for that.
Cameras everywhere.
Pat how did you escape from the morge and when are you planning to exact your revenge on the people of Coronation street
Massive respect for all those workers. They’re people, not animals nor robots and they deserve to be treat like people.
Disgusting what I saw. 3 strikes? It’s not baseball lads. Big up all those workers and many workers facing that sort of disgusting behaviour
I worked at Booker and they where exactly like this, then I worked at Ocado and similar behaviour from coordinators, thinking they are the boss. Ocado where good at pretending to care and some managers where decent people, however they repeatedly messed up peoples wages, they took away two of are holiday days and made us buy them back. Got made redundant 8n October because they didn't require Me anymore.
i grew up working in 2003 era moving or construction constantly working I could complain but didnt, todays victim culture really pathetic
@@corysmith3447 I respect that
@@corysmith3447 "2003 era" ahaha mans like 40 and thinks hes been down the mines. Bro we had far better workers rights and protections back then while we were part of the EU and under labor....
@@corysmith3447 Congrats on living during times when you actually got paid.
Disgusting behaviour. So JD and Sports Direct are 2 I won't be buying from now on
Danny what are you going to wear
@@terrierscottie alieee
This shop is responsible for the uniform of all chavs in the past 20 years. No one should EVER buy from them, and they should be shut down now.
@TIGERWOODSBOYFRIEND fucking love this comment hahaha 'chavacaust' was my personal favorite good day to you sir!
Danny you’re not going to buy from sports direct or JD sports, so you’re just going to buy from another company from overseas? Which by the way, endorses child labour
Excellent historical re-enactment of a Victorian Workhouse.
Thatchers plan working this was planed
You all ways get stupid menials work for pittance
@@seansands424 and some as you say (menials) have their hand forced bye the powers that be to take this kind of jobs or they have their money stopped, makes you think are the job centre managers in it with these agencies, figures figures figures
even worse..at least back then you weren't watched 24/7 with cameras and magnetic cards..
@@marktaylor2105 of course they are, JC is part of the DWP. i was signing on for a short while before getting my current job, and the amazon fulfilment just opened at the airport, and my local job centre was pretty much frog marching job seekers to amazon. luckily i got a job on my own within a couple of weeks before it happened to me! they tried, though...
As a fully licenced SIA badge holder and security officer of over 20 years JD sports your security practices are ridiculous, checking everyone 100% of the time is harassment.
Sia aswell buddy 👍I couldn't agree more security procedures are stupid
Me too sia security for over 20 years...an search on the person without justification is actual physical assault again taken aside or physically held say in an office is false detention and imprisonment accusing someone of fraud an criminal offence and accusation incidentally without evidences or taking the appropriate action is defamation slander injurious to the person and its all of this and possibly more if found unproven...meaning even i security if asked to behave in such an unlawfull fashion would only last about 5 mins with these people..
@@ericjarvie Its like the SIA gives the guard the training they need to do the job then you go work for a company that abuses that training given, SIA was brought in to clean up the image of security in the UK, well they are certainly good at giving them selves big bonuses while nearly all guards slave away on living wage on some shitty concentration camp or building site.
@Michael Solomon but I bet there board members get paid more than you'll ever see in your life time and probably steal stuff from the company all the time - work from home while sleeping in, have a meeting at an expensive restaurant where it's closer to play than work and its all put on the company credit card, etc.
With a company that large net profit doesn't have to be huge at the individual store level for the guys at the top to see huge amounts of money coming in.
nicholasowenjones - They put in the work to get to that position. Or brought value to the business to get the position. If you’re doing line packaging work you’ve got nothing to compare with someone of that position, period.
"I've sacked people for sitting down" said the supervisor, probably returning to sit down
Supervisor still down all day
To be fair to him he probably has to sack people for sitting down. I don’t think he has a choice
@@matthewdooley9046 he kind of does have a choice its more discretion if he sees they been working flat out and catching there breath back for a few mins just let it go if they are experienced workers and it becomes a point where they are doing it just to be lazy then thats when you got to talk to them but being her first week as well they are going to get tired quickly he shouldnt of made them work like that hes a terrible supervisor i dont see leadership i see a guy on a power trip a good supervisor would of given them a hand and woulldnt pushed new workers that hard right away its a golden rule ive always stuck too i never let anyone do something where i wouldn't be willing to do my self or haven't done before
Literally pissed me off the way he spoke to the person
@@evildeed90s yeah it comes down to whether the boss is a decent person
I WILL NOT purchase JD Sports items ever again... The brand has been tarnished beyond repair....
same here, jd sports is also quite expensive i think compared to sports direct and others like them.
I bet they will really miss you....
@@letsridebikes7716 - 50,00 other people change their purchases the same as me and they WILL......
@@DaviesMartinezBeats good luck with that. Let me know when that happens
There all like it. The phone you bought to comment was made by a little kid from China are u not going to buy phones
Exposed? What are you exposing exactly? This is every warehouse in UK, ever.
666222333111 so true I worked in the Argos warehouse, exactly the same
@philip Trevor Unfortunately we just put up with it as we all need jobs
@@stu8998 the one in Essex Pipps Hill was terrible too!
Yeah cus everyone used to be nicking all the stock
I was just about to say this, All warehouses are like this
They should all just leave and go on the dole. Maybe supplement their income by shoplifting at JD sports.
Won't help the country but I hear what you're saying. At the very least I hope most leave and steal whatever they can from that miserable fucking place.
But if they leave JD sports, their benefits get cut (At the time of the video at least)
Union strike should be implemented. Or rally all the people to riot
we should all just take ourselves a slice
That's the issue, they're ON the dole. The government thought it would be a grand idea of putting these "lazy good for nothings" to work and make it mandatory to pickup any job you can or getting your benefits cut.
I have a friend who was on jobseekers allowance for a long time and had to take up working at places like Travis Perkins for 6 months FOR FREE in the hopes of getting hired after this testing period. Of course they let him go afterwards and said he wasn't a right fit or whatever. So they have a revolving door of free labor, just rejecting any applicants they get and the government/ corporations line their pockets a little more.
I really don't miss being unemployed or working minimum wage jobs. It's slavery re-branded, only at least 200+ years ago they actually gave you food and shelter, but now they pay you barely enough to afford food and shelter for yourself. Humanity is still making progress.. right?
I can say from my own experience this is true. Definitely felt like scum working there. Everyone was on knife edge not knowing what silly thing they were going to get sacked for. It felt like a prison camp. The only good thing about the place was the people I met
boycott these abusing companies, hit them where it hurts, dispicable behaviour towards your staff
this is common in all jobs of this type, warehouse jobs are known for this.
Prepare to learn how to live off the land if that's your plan mate.
@@That0Homeless0Guy ,i have not bought at any of them for a long time. I have nice trainers and a veg patch in my garden. but yes i do feed the beast in one way or another, everyday probably, I also run a business and iwould not use them methods, to motivate staff, incentives and security work for most. if not sack the lazy beggars
@@That0Homeless0Guy Designer trainers are not essentials.
They should go on strike or claim stress and get sick pay ... all of them and then JD will realise they have to improve
Do people not realise that for most of us under 30 this isn't even eye opening, especially if you work in hospitality. This is shitty, and it's life for most of us 😭
Seriously. Quite astounding that people are surprised that company's want you to work while getting paid.
I feel bad for you all... Seriously outrageous! 😔😡
@@TheBUGZNTA and in 12 hours if I sit down once it's OK I get fired?
@@BulletproofGOAT Yes, People working construction in the arizona heat get 30 mins in a 16 hour day to take a break and none of them are complaining. Working inside a building for 12 hours on your feet is rather reasonable.
BUGZNTA thank you, Glad someone said it.
Sadly, the lower the wage, the more work is expected.
And therein lies the flaw with the all-too-often touted illogic: “Just work harder!” If the privileged in our society knew for even a second just how difficult the lives of the working class are, they would vote and/or campaign to do something about it. Those who do know unfortunately don’t care.
@@GarethPW Exactly right
I do the hardest job at the warehouse but i got paid 190 for 36 hours
@@alih8615 wtf barely more than 5 an hour. Is the job really physically demanding?
@@shannoncalleja2209 and the lower the wage the lower the employee's incentive and motivation is.
I got a disciplinary for charging my phone in the staff room. My manager threatened to phone the police for theft of electricty. I was naive 18 yr old but I wish I'd told him to phone the police.
Then I asked a manager for help because a customer needed another size of tshirt and i wasnt allowed to leave the spot. Got a mouthful for interrupting him, so I just walked out the door.
Twelve years ago and i still think about!
The charging of phone situation happened to someone I knew.Where I can see the point to a extent ,the rule was not the same for all workers.One guy I worked with was reprimanded in the managers office for charging his phone in the staff room.He said while being lectured he noticed the managers phone on the desk ,with the lead dangling down and the phone being charged,blatantly in front of him.While technically you are using works electricity to charge the phone,it was basically one rule for the office gods and one for the peasants.
The whole warehouse should walk out... Watch it fold.. power to the ppl 👍🏻
@d3adsoulja that's why having unions is a good idea.
There will be 3 shifts and the warehouse will be runnong 247
Theres a reason why they can get rid of you so easy because you can easily be replaced. Its that simple lol
@@yeahman147 keep walking out & get a TV cheeky camera in there.. (no wait)
@zimalin chances are many ppl will watch this & not want to work there..
As a Warehouse Manager here in America I can tell you I'm appalled. Absolutely a shame to treat your staff this way. I genuinely love my crew and would do anything for them, and they would do anything for me. Shame on you JD Sports, and other British Ops teams that mimic this disgusting management style.
It's a genuine problem across the UK. It stems from pencil pushers being jobsworths and trying to make a name for themselves. I know someone who was genuinely sick, but as they worked in food service had a legal obligation to report it, went sick, came back, final warning. they should have just ignored the laws and kept working.
it is good you have this working relationship with your fellow employees as you are paid higher but still an employee , and buiding the bonds in your crew keep folk happy in work , build themup , make them proud about what they do , this is the secret to workplace harmony , jd follow a completely different path
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Are you and your team employed directly by the same company?
It's looks like a concentration camp, just coz you employ someone doesn't mean you own them. Boycott JD!!
I got kicked and banned cause I sat on the floor for 2 hours telling the customers buying stuff where to go
JD and other companies are like the job centre staff, capita asos etc.. treating us as sub human cattle in old victorain wirk houses ran by profit nazis
ROBERT J KIS Warehouses work is awful
i work at the same jd warehouse now and i can honestly say nothing has changed, still not allowed to sit down at all, still have to keep the kpi above target and the supervisors speak to recruitment staff like children, they still have thumbprint scanners you have to use every time you enter, every break and when you leave, still massive ques and they still have the 3 strike system, the worst thing for me is the constant standing up for 12 hours, it does feel like prison and its sad to watch this video from 2016 and nothing has changed, channel 4 need to do another undercover on this place because you would all be shocked at how little it has changed, i can honestly say im never buying anything from JD after working in the warehouse for 3 weeks and counting (until i get sacked for some stupid reason)
nobody is shocked, nobody cares, it's all been done as a drama show for the media.
Not gonna use JDs again either....the profits are kept for the people at the top who don't do any hard work.
Keep your workforce happy, run your ship efficiently.
Didn’t notice it was 6yrs ago the film was made. Terrible that nothing’s changed but why would it. The owners are likely Tory donors and people want their shite clothes with logos on incessantly. Baffles me how the amount of clothing is constantly produced. Sorry you have to work there friend. Best of luck.
@@FuknNoNameblame Tory always the move for any situation
In another 6 years this type of work should only need like 10% of the current man power, rest will all be automated.
We need more journalism like this in the society, it is definitely effective in terms of creating changes, let's embrace and support such journalism with our comments to tv channels and government entities!
We need unions again
We are a Nation of plebs a laughing stuck who will work for pittance
This is trash journalism. As long as people are free to leave anytime. This is a non-story
Journalist dnt exist anymore they just tell you what somebody else wants them to now we need a global revolution
you clearly don't understand what freedom is. you can enslave people with more than physical chains and cages, some might think this is a side issue, but actually its at the core of the problem, wealth is created through physical endeavour, if you want wealth without the endeavour you have to steal it, slavery was a way of stealing others wealth creating endeavour, it's highly inneficient though and your responsible for the wealfare of your slaves, much better to create a system where all your slaves think they are free and you use other methods to get your hands on the wealth there efforts create. you also have to get creative in how you justify this theft.
Usually the managers exact that sort of power on people, because it's the only place they have any.
Yep ! That's a huge problem here in the USA too ! Pathetically lame PEOPLE who don't have any control over THEIR own life THEY get the feeling of power to control and execute THEIR will upon others who are perceived as below them in the power chain !!!!
Generally the worst managers are the ones working in unskilled work. Because they have zero skills they always feel very insecure and take it out on everyone else. Being so poorly skilled also means that there is very little in the way of hierarchy so they fear for their jobs as they're just as disposable as anyone else and they know it.
Where I work, a metal fabrication and engineering workshop, the labourers are much more skilled and harder to replace than any manager in the JD sports warehouse. They're also paid £12 an hour basic. Even as a labourer for my workshop, these managers would be completely out of their league.
Talk about insecure.
mrdojob I used to work in a horticultural nursery and the manager there was awful, constantly nit picking and if you went upstairs 1 minute early you would be called into the office. They even threatened to dock people’s wages, this isn’t the 1970s.
Small man syndrome
power corrupts and the people at the top don't care as long as the targets are reached.
i applied to JD for a summer job, first shift was 14 hours so didnt go...im glad
😂😂😂😂
@Lee Unless the two digits start with 2 doesn't seem like its worth losing your dignity like that. And it would never be that high lol
I thought 12 hours was the legal limit?
@@scottigertiger6430 maybe it was 12 im not sure but it was definetly double digits
@@scottigertiger6430 no its 16
I worked in a Wincanton warehouse in London for Sainsbury's. This report does not even shock me as I literally turned up to work one day and was let go. I am glad I walked away happily as I hated it but thought I was being picky or I needed experience.
I walked away and a few years late being more picky, I applied for a position in an office and asked for 25k annual income but was instead offered 28k. 3k more than I asked and that is how good companies work, they also only demanded 1 day in the office minimum and I said I would be happy to come in 5 days.
People need to realise they are far more valuable than their desperate situation might allow them to think.
"People need to realise they are far more valuable than their desperate situation might allow them to think", VERY WELL SAID.
Anybody else get Black Mirror vibes when the music played over the tannoy?
The finger print thing aswell
Nope...could be because I’ve not seen it though
Craig shut up
So much
Back when Black Mirror was worth watching
Nobody:
JD Sports: That's a strike
every warehouse business does something similar to this, not just JD.
Shaq dat u ye
I have worked in places exactly like this as a line worker, picker, and a security guard. It made me downright suicidal. Quitting and learning basic coding was the best thing I have done in my life.
What do you do with your basic coding skills?
@@pflernakthere is still demand even for basic web coders (provided one takes time to cobble together at least some basic project to show during the interview). I used to convert designs into html,css,jquery etc., now I'm helping with front-end as well.
Well done for quitting and doing something different. It does take quite a bit of courage.
Same thing I'm tryna do right now and save up while working so I'm able to invest money
How did u learn to code mate and which language? Was it free or did u pay for an online course etc
Employment has become too much like being owned by someone
Good comment
Say it like it is. Employment in modern society is literally slavery.
The only difference between this and prison is...
they pay for your lunch in prison
They get paid, are allowed to leave & don't get raped. But yeah no free lunch.
Sounds like a school though?
Well at least working at JD you don't have to masturbate with a load of guys.
It's nothing like prison
@@CrawfordGrimaldi You sure about that?
I heard horror stories when I was on job seeker's allowance. Lads had been sent to warehouses 40 miles away, had to pay for their own transport, usually starting before 6am and once they got there it was a 50/50 chance they would actually get any work that day. There were white boards with names and hours on it. If your name wasn't on the board, you went home with no pay. This happens in warehouses all over the UK.
The job center itself was just as bad, a cattle market. I was bounced around training courses for nine months. I'd been sent to "CV workshops" five times. Six hours sitting in an office just to walk out with a new CV each time. I quickly realized I was only there to keep the workers at the job center in a job.
I made my CV back in secondary and have only made adjustments when needed to input details of my employment experiences.
Why are you struggling with creating a "passable" CV?? If that's the case, how are you going to get a job?
They bounce you around these courses hoping you won't attend, so they can cut you off
@@MrFreebrowsingis that really wrong? They don't send people on pip on these courses its just the ones that are allegedly already looking for work (jobseekers). People go on benefits designed to support you while looking a job and then complain when they're told they need to look for work. The fact you can fail and still not starve is amazing.
Facts, They make a killing woth these agencys also.
I remember i got let go from a job, still getting through the issues i had with manager i told job coach about, the work coach told me, right, i need in the next 2 days, go out and sign up to like 4 - 6 agencies a day after I lost my job, well suffering from Sever Social Anxiety and doing something like that would take me under 7 days, but within 2? not even 48 hours, he insisted i had to go in person, couldn't do it over the phone the guy was a complete asshole, didn't care at all, oh and he signed me up for a bunch of useless courses that i'm far to "Qualified for" literally done so many courses previously on CV, interviews etc, that everything they try to teach me, I already know. so just wasting even more time i could be at home searching for jobs.
I worked for JD in a shop back in 2005/6 and this sort of stuff was happening then
No body do, s nothing about it
What sort of stuff? ...you go there to work, to do a job you follow systems and rules = work. You work 12 hour shifts and you get time off, there are laws and regs. Brits have no idea how the other half live, in the rest of the world.
@@jakoflynn2560 we developed hard won employment laws over many many decades to prevent the exploitation of workers by unscrupulous employers. I think you will find even the orange man who presided over the US at the moment is anti immigration on the basis that it undermines American wages via cheap imported labour driving down wage rates and that these immigrants are often exploited in the work place via practices that the average American wouldn't tolerate. Cheap exploited labour in unregulated working environments provides unfair competitive advantage over responsible industries in the same sector who adhere to decent working practices, pay and conditions. Before you reply that I'm racist ect, no I'm not, I'm just pointing out what is happening and reasons as to why it's happening and it's detrimental effects to everybody.
@@lincolndave1966able get a job
@@michaeltrobinson729 Wild Will, I have a job, I have been in full time employment since gaining a degree 33 years ago so I'm afraid your comment has little relevance pertaining to my employment status. You are of course welcome to try another cheap shot but please forgive me if I am inclined not to respond because as Mark Twain once said "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience".
I was a packer of JD last year and I felt like a prisoner every day.
They still treat workers quit harsh and those rules are still exist .
I have a degree and forced to work here, it truly is awful. Why not quit? The warehouse is located in a town with lots of poor areas and people are desperate for money. Treated like shit just so the people at the top can squeeze as many pennies as possible without killing its workers. Just enough to keep them coming back.
Yup, and then you hear people say "work to get yourself out of it" or "there's other jobs out there" etc sometimes you can be in a hopeless position and that's it.
dont put up with it
"I have a degree" - in what? from where?
@@TheAlexagius he's get a degree in studying dank memes
Great reporting!
Disgusting they make you queue to leave work.
@@Valliant2007 but at least free to have a smoke if they want.
The mighty UK Amazon do the same long queues after shifts, workers in their own time while they conduct personal searches.
You should be able to queue 15\20 mins before the end of your shift, that way it's the companies time and you're being paid.....no way I would waste 30 mins per shift WAITING to leave or start!!
It's their policy so why are staff penalised!?
Kodiakbear They have no relationship with the worker only that they empower you.if you don't confirm your gone
It's going back to victorian times and these company's are the new work houses.
Anyone with any self pride would not entertain going back after a stint and in turn cutting the parasite agencies fund supply
I had the misfortune of doing three weeks in 2011 as I had been laid off but it felt like three months all I can say it was an experience not to be repeated
@@kodiakbear3076 if they had to pay you to stand there doing nothing, they'd quickly stop the searches. It'd be cheaper to lose some stuff and search just two dozen heads per shift. Clock out should be after search queue.
17:06 "Kill me Now" writen in labels on the backboard.
That says it all. Quite depressing to see that. I bet that person was sacked for putting that up there.
Surprised it wasn’t torn down
@@sassychumpkins4639 IKR
A J no I mean by a supervisor
Definitely got a strike for that
It's actually genius! Put a factory in a place with high unemployment and make them go via the job centre... We let this happen as a society
So UA-cam recommends me this video almost 2 years after it was first uploaded... okay then. By the way, most warehouses are like this whatever the shop. The UK is a joke with the way it exploits its citizens when we're one of the richest nations on earth.
All this about one of the richest national in the planet. Have seen our debt. It is the second biggest in the world after USA. We are the 6 highest in GDP but second in debt. Scary how much debt we actually have.
@@ABanRocks that doesn't justify taking advantage of people in need tho?
Worked for Amazon UK for 5 years and it was exactly the same, jobs are just rare to come by in a lot of areas and that forces people into this type of work, if the company hadn't ruined my mental health i'd probably still be there
@@LegaliseTeddySex you would think that in a better and more friendly environment the productivity of the workforce would naturally increase instead of this inhumane and disrespectful treatment from these bosses whose power has got to their heads. Hope your mental health and happiness is recovering positively. 👍
@@ABanRocks you obviously don't know how money is created. its a debt based system my friend.
Zero hour contract agency work should be outlawed. I did it for a long time and you have no rights, no support and no security. It's not just JD or sports direct, it's everywhere. Literally every single agency I worked for was the same, and I worked for a few seeing as I was just disposed of when they were done with me. Dangling the carrot tactics, threats of dismissal, threats of being 'benched', closely monitored performance statistics, prison like security, salaried staff whipping you all day and night, working hours for free, the list goes on it's just relentless. At the end of it all you don't even get paid well, if they remember to pay you at all!
Zero hours should be paid more than min wage, 10%
Remember when I got laid off from a well paid job on building site after 4 years. Got a temp job at a warehouse, and it was exactly like this. I only lasted two weeks before I ended up in a heated argument with a bully supervisor who used to try and intimidate other workers; definitely didn’t work on me. Wouldn’t ever recommend working in a warehouse unless you have no other option
I did night shifts in a warehouse for a few weeks to save up a bit of money. Almost exactly the same conditions. Only thing that kept me going was the fact I knew I was leaving very soon.
We as a society have let this happen
worked for amazon for a few weeks now i never buy anything from them its the same conditions as this
My ex worked at an Amazon warehouse. She said the same.
It was like a prison and everyone was treated like thieves.
Amazon barely produce any of the goods tho lol, but yeah I get you, they earn a lot of the revenue
Do an undercover video
I’m sure they did undercover video on them few years ago. About how many steps one takes on shift was like they walk 10 miles while scanning and the bleeping noise
which branch
Got sacked from a jd sports store for using my mobile phone to actually bring delivery into the store for them to let me in through back door in the loading bay, safe to say best thing they have ever done for me, now earning twice as much
That's great to hear
Good for you, mate
Where u work at now?
Never buying from JD Sports again, EVER!!! Wicked horrible people...
I pledge, I won't step in another JD sport shop. I do buy sports gear a lot. Not from there anymore.
I too once worked in smiliar circumstances. I have worked hard to get out of there. I feel it too real.
@@roshlouis8767 No way!! Feel sorry for you, but you made the right decision...
@@roshlouis8767 I wouldn't call it a sports shop anymore lol it's more of a chav shop
The problem is that not buying will only affect the workers in warehouse, for affective change new laws are needed and for that to be likely we need a new party in charge
Careful, you might find that you won't be able to shop anywhere.
Sounds a lot like a company I used to work for. The branch I worked at was closed down, employees offered a position at another branch miles away or take redundancy. All but two took redundancy. The woman from HR said she had never met a workforce so happy to be losing their jobs.
FEEL sorry for the workers who had been treated like a piece of garbage.
@Jumbo Doyle in your dreams
Andrew_koala That attitude is absolutely fucking revolting. Some of these people may be young or have low skill and no alternative but to take a job like this to make ends meet. Just because someone is there by “consent”, does that means they are not entitled to be treated like a human being and not constantly degraded? Everyone, no matter where they work should be entitled to be treated with respect, especially when owners of big companies can be very exploitative individuals, making bank without being remotely ethical.
This has absolutely nothing to do with political correctness, it’s about basic empathy and your line of thinking is very sociopathic and exploitative. I’d suggest you get some therapy if these are truly your beliefs.
@andrew_koala2974Genius alert 🤣
@piggerGg sociopthic can't alert, more like! 😬
@@DaSkonk 🤣
This is the best Undercover Boss I have seen in a while! 😂😈
:D
16-19 year old's need to watch this instead of writing JDSports' owner fan fiction
I was on more money in the 70,s
16-19 They think they know all, and now who is the stupid one, they are to stupid look what they put up with and they do nothing we wont have put up with this in the 70,s menials are so stupid no back bone
Your comment is ironic given the fact you seem to have the grammatical ability of a first grader.
@@seansands424 Is English your native language?
@@ACombineSoldier aww did you get offended by that statement? They guys only stating fact. Dont see what grammer had anything to do with his argument, could you please explain?
My sister worked here for a week on 12 hour shift and her ankles were swollen and red cause they would not let her sit down and the supervisors were constantly on her back so she left.
Anyone still wonder why British Unions became so militant? About time for a repeat I would say.
Stay staunch
Preach
I will never shop at JD again, shocking really
Dont worry, it gets better.
See when you take that delicious £200 wage home you get to put it into rent or mortgage, both of which are raised by engineered scarcity in the housing market.
Or you can put it in the bank where you'll get an interest rate which doesn't match inflation ... strangely this is the norm among all banks, almost like they got together and had a bit of a chat.
(Im not suggesting a cartel though, cause cartels are highly illegal. Any banker doing that would end up in prison with all the other bad bankers who got locked up)
Anyway, the good news to all of this is that should the banks, which kindly store (and make profit off) your (devalued) cash, ever flounder you don't have to worry, because they'll simply nationalize their debts.
Just like they nationalize their profits .... yep.
I know this because I live in Ireland, where the private debts of anglo-irish bank were gently slid across the table into the folder marked 'Irish public'. weeeee.
Take care of this 40 bn tab would you.
Strangely I can't remember a time where the banks placed profits in that same folder.
It must have happened, its just me, i must be low on plasma again.
Tesco warehouse is just as bad if not worse than this.
Craig Robinson Tesco are normally known to look after there staff, that shocking if it’s true
mike currie Truly shocking isn’t it mike
@@tedcrilly46 wow
Absolutely sickening.
I worked in a Superdrug in Denton that doubled as a warehouse (despite being tiny), this is reminiscent of that. But JD Sports looks worse.
Some things are familiar though. Any item we owned which the store had in stock, we had go have signed by management. The receipt too if we bought it in-store. We had to spin a wheel at the day, the options were bag search, pockets search, or no search. We were shouted at for sitting down, sometimes given formal warnings for it. People worked to the point of physical pain, and sometimes fainting. I left when they introduced QR codes to our name badges that supervisors had to scan like a product bar code to sign us in and out with...the dehumanisation was insane.
The manager expected a team of 6-15 people (dependant on the rota) to get 800 orders minimum picked, packed, and put in vans for delivery in 1 day. She often pushed for 1000 though. She would sit at her desk in the back office half the time watching us on the CCTV cameras, which she always had open. The turnover rate was insane, naturally. As were staff stress levels.
I do IT support now and I'm a lot happier.
Every warehouse in the UK is like this. Warehouses is where dreams come to die. Seen so many young fellas lose the hope in their eyes and turn to mindless zombies in a few months...
This is why I hate big companies.. This erra of lifestyle will end one day
Thatcher has won
Asnes45 not all big companies are bad
Come back 1970,s all is for given
This is big buisness everywhere. Not just the UK
It is too long we all be dead and gone by the time that happens, what is the point of living
I worked there for 2 months and I was never more depressed in my life please people never go here
umer nisar why didn’t u quit
OfficialMe because a job is a job things need paid for you could hate a job but need it to pay for rent food etc unfortunately
It was a terrible place to work
Not just JD. Every warehouse is unbearable.
This is absolutely horrible I can’t believe the cheek of the managers
Good job Brits, you are well on your way to being just like India.
what's India like in this case?
This looks like north Korea
implying this doesnt happen in every country. honestly youre hate for brittain just shows how insecure you are in your shitholes
Brits have gathered their wealth by exploiting and looting other nations. From India too. So their reputation is not very high anyway. It´s just their own grandiose delusion that still keep them feeling above everyone else. It´s not just about the government, it´s also their companies and local communities that carry on that attitude and views.
hahaha I think we're quite a ways off floating corpses down the Thames (or any other river in the country) and then drinking/bathing in the rancid water filled with
hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, amoebic dysentery, other waterborne diseases, and a variety of skin afflictions.
in fact, Cholera (amongst most of the others) is actually eradicated in UK.
so... does that make you a liar? or a fucking moron who did no research? I think both probably apply +M TheWolf
I actually suspect M TheWolf mistook India to be a different country. it follows logically. he's that stupid, clearly
Three Strikes? Supervisor! "What mate?" Right, Left, Uppercut. Good night
This treatment of employees in this day & age is just totally unacceptable, I will most definitely never ever buy from JD Sports again after watching this! What a miserable existence these poor workers have, (apart from the heartless managers) I feel so very sorry for them :(
I worked at a well known high street fashion store in 2000 - 2003 in the Trafford Centre. Where we were bullied into getting shoppers to open store cards. The target was 1 a day on a shift. Failure to do so resulted in disciplinary action. Also physically disciplined by management twisting your arm to cause pain. One day I opened 10 and was hailed as a star employee, next day I got none and was put on the named and shame board. If you didn't get a customer to open a store card by the end of your shift, you had to stay late, unpaid. The culture of a threatening atmosphere by management was disgusting. My mental health deteriorated but as I needed a job you end up being trapped. I would say there are thousands of companies in the UK with horrendous conditions.
Why don't you say their name and shame them.... Why protect their image
Seriously I wouldn't last 5 minutes in there because one of those "supervisors" would get a good hiding
Up the ra 🇮🇪
I be the same
Exactly.
100% They would get a good smack
The only reason they take it from them is because there is literally no other option nowadays, you have to just put up with shitty jobs like this because people are worth nothing nowadays.
this is where society is going, with the castration of trade unions this is where we are, THIS IS BECOMING NORM!!
its been the norm for years i used to work in distribution 20 odd years ago and this was the same at nearly every place i went
Completely agree and it's down to the governments near complete disregard for the interests of low paid workers. I've done some low paid zero hours jobs for a while before and the difference in power between the worker and the employer is totally unfair. We are supposed to be a democracy ruled by the people, yet the rulers sell out the people to these big companies to make the UK 'a more attractive place for investment'. We are slowly moving back to a feudal system.
@@abdidreamchaser2579 Democracy, just an illusion!
Trade unions caused this by going on strike too much over next to nothing.
Galaxy brain take right there. Please explain.
Yeah this is bad but imagine what it's like for the workers that actually make those products
its very unlikely there are many workers making half of those products. robots are a lot more common than ppl think. theyve been mainstream for *at least* a decade in manufacturing
Ghryst VanGhod what world do you live in lol? When you said robot did you mean 8 year old Asian kid??
They probably get to sit down.
Exactly.
Pedro Goss Welcome to the layer cake son.
zero hour contracts should be made illegal, this is a disgusting way to treat people. Owners, CEO's, Directors, etc of these companies should be held accountable and should spend some time at his majesty's pleasure when breaking employment law, maybe then the message will get through. In business (I have been a business owner), I have always treated people as I would like to be treated, with some respect and dignity.
"if you tolerate this...your children will be next"
I'm interested to talk about this video. Wanna discuss it?
this video is a "snapshot" of what is and has been quite common practice in English warehouses/logistics/distribution centres for a great many years. i have personal experience from 20 years back...and it saddening to see how long it taken for the issue to be highlighted in the mainstream media.
@@vincentdeguard4726 That is very true, in Swansea Wales Amazon operate the same way the workers are like robots who are made to run wild around the warehouse with strict targets, there are many youths in Swansea who need work but would rather sell weed etc than become a bullied robot for a multi billion pound company.
Companies know there is a limitless flow of desperate, low skilled foreign workers that'll do anything for a job.
Paul Wilday The workers who will disappear after Brexit.
@@SH3RIFF187 Sadly they won't. There are many from non-eu nations like pakistan who will remain.
muslims are work shy when you say foreign workers you mean the native anglos
Why did JD build their warehouse in North Korea anyway?
Cheap labour
If I got three strikes and was sacked on the slot by some big headed supervisor I would make it well worth it to Him sacking Me he would think twice about sacking anyone else
This country has gone to the DOGS.
jesus jones if it was
communist then the workers might have better rights you fool
@@JohnnyPaton Better rights? research communism a bit more dude please.
Hey Micky do you understand the basic concept of Communism? I’m not talking about what failed communist states ultimately became. I’m talking about the basic premise of communism “the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.” Everyone is equal and everyone benefits from their labour and no one is taken advantage of by a capatalist class. It is capitalism that has created this monster, not
Socialism dude.
It's neither communism nor capitalism you pair of wankers...This is just called greed. The top dogs at jd set out the rules for their factories and all ye can fffffoocus on is your own little political worlds. It's greed end of
Yes this hellhole is repeated up and down this once great country. And as for lean work practices don't get me started
I've worked for agencies in places almost as bad as this. I'm curious as to the rate of suicide amongst agency workers in general.
JD's first and only priority is how to detect hidden cameras.
nah i'd risk being unemployed and homeless if not jailed before i'd ever let another man talk to me like that, I promise with everything in my his jaw wouldn't work properly for the rest of his life.
Ban zero hour contracts. Give full worker rights from day 1 or at least after 6 months. Join a union. Only way to go.
every job I have ever held has had a 1 to 3 month probationary period where you could be fired for any reason, the only people I ever saw get fired and not quit earned being fired.
that isnt to say their are employers like this who treat their employers like replaceable parts, the bad employers are almost always known to everyone in the area and they have a harder time employing people.
@@kercchan3307 the problem is your employer can sack you in the first 2years without any reason and have no employment rights. If have full employment rights from beginning you still can be sacked but employer has to give reason and treat you fairly.
@@grantdennison69 I am not condoning the bad employers, but the employer always holds the power. the government cannot force anyone to hire people just to appease a group of people. If a government tries this they can just shut down and leave the area/country, close down bank accounts etc.
thankfully employees talk and word of bad employers gets around really fast eventually leaving the bad employers having to look extremely hard just to fill their requirements
Grant Dennison, unions have been castrated they don't have the power anymore. Whatever happened to all the shop stewards.
@@barbaracrickley6191 I'm one and I would hate to know how we would have been treated if we didn't have union. Even our employer said if didn't have union we just give notice and change shift. But we now have great shift cause we all stick together. People need to start joining unions and stick together. I used to work on aircraft but now on trains cause pays more and that's down to the unions.
This is exactly the same situation as the DHL warehouse that supplies Primark in Thrapston Northamptonshire.
It's a harsh draconian environment that is capable of sucking the joy and life from the most positive of souls.
Try K&N Wellingborough.
I see nothing wrong with it
@@dylanmurphy572 it's 3rd world
This is happening to 99% of people working for agency's on zero hour's contracts. A number of documentaries have been made, about different companies and nothing ever happens.
i work for royal mail via agency in warehouse since 2016 - hands down best job ever had
This is a return to the days of the conditions you would find down the pits in the 1800s and the unscrupulous mill owners… this is slavey
I worked in a freezer warehouse for Sainsburys. It was -25 degrees and we were told we had to pick over 1000 cases in an 8 hour shift. It was horrible
That is like a case every 20 seconds without a break. I would have told them go fish.
I work for Aldi warehouse and we are treated really well. I'm shocked to hear comments saying all warehouses are like this as I've only ever worked in one. Come work for Aldi, good money as well.
possibly because big german companys have high standards
I once worked in Asda warehouse for a little while in between a career change. It was pretty good tbh. Pay was really good considering the type of job and they treated you well.
@@martcod7 tell that too K&N .
Many years ago I worked in JD Sports, Cheshire Oaks as a weekend job. At the end of every shift when the store closed, the doors were locked and you couldn’t leave until 45 minutes after (unpaid), as the ‘standards’ needed to be maintained. This basically meant tidying up and ensuring the clothes were displayed correctly. This is despite every single staff member (excluding management) making sure this was done throughout the day. After two weekends, I demanded to leave and just walked out. They refused to open the doors even though I resigned from my job on the spot.
Did they at least pay you for the 2 weeks?😅
There’s no jd sports at Cheshire oaks 🤥
@@MarkPurbrick-i1qgoogle exists
@@MarkPurbrick-i1q Unit R10, Cheshire Oaks, 29 Coliseum Way, Ellesmere Port CH65 9HD, United Kingdom
@@MarkPurbrick-i1qyes there is. On the Coliseum next to Boots. Probably fact check yourself before trying to (wrongly) shoot someone down 🙄🤦
I remember working there. Was sent home because I sat down for 5 mins. They said I was recorded on cameras and I needed to go home. This was after bouncing me around the warehouse on different jobs 4 times and confusing me by giving me so many responsibilities. If I don’t find a new responsibility fast, then I’m at fault.
Boycott JD Sports, We the People need to fight back against companies that don't treat their employees with such disrespect. We need to send a message. Not to mention the fire hazard queuing out of the building.
amerzon is just as bad
All walk out on strike, strike agents the three strikes if that,s the way they want to play it give them a strike, they would have in the 70,s
Trouble is benefits scrounging chavs will always shop there. Especially the ones that accessorise with Special Brew at 8 in the morning while shagging their own cousins
I have worked at a Primark warehouse in kettering, and the supervisors there would threaten violence if you messed something up.
WHAT A SHOCKING WAY TO TREAT PEOPLE, ITS A DISGRACE, i am so sorry for these poor workers, its hell for them! and i am glad the Government is intervening
Government intervening that's what they say to make it look like their doing something,once it's old news it'll be back to the same 21st century work house, I'm afraid to say.
A course they wont, they want it like this, they just say that to keep people quiet and off course people believe it
I have worked for GXO riverisland for 5 years and the conditions are pretty much the same. Scary thing is this documentary came out 6 years ago. Fingerprint scanners, KPIs, filthy conditions, agency workers asked to go home after half a shift we also have a similar three strike rule. Unbelievable 😢
GXO riverisland magna park Milton Keynes. Shame on you.
Reminds me of every job i had in my 20s. Welcome to the wonderful world of the working class
Should have gone to college and learned a trade then.
Thanks to doing exactly that, me and a couple of other lads at the same company was clearing 400 a week after tax and NI, in my early 20s 😂
(Side bit of info)
@@kf8575 Nobody cares though.
The man shouted for them to work faster what an evil man haha
This report is pathetic, exactly what I’d expect a busy warehouse to run like
@@kf8575 oh really ken. Yea great advice. I'll just skip back ina time machine u fucking worm
@@kf8575 lol I was on 600 a week at 20.
this is why people quit their jobs, because of minor mistakes like this leads to normal people to get a sack, it is the 21st century for god sake, why can't jd and other companies do better in the work environment, this is not the sort of work i will never ever join, it's like modern day african slavery
You're right, OP - it *is* the current year! Ohhh man, you sure showed JD!
Now that you've told them the current year, they have no excuses!
I can,t never do that, I wont last a minute or the place won,t
Really does go to show that as soon as you give people a little bit of power over other people, they abuse it.
JD should be fined and if you can prove you worked their you should be entitled to a share of the fine.
ScofaUK fined for what?
jonny5777 Did you even watch the video?
@@jonny5777 slavery and torcher and overworking act. a job should be something you enjoy and like doing at a reasonable pace and the wage should be justified how much strength is put into it and the knowledge input. ur not disturbing the peace, ur disturbing a human being.
K Scott I think I did. Good job education is free in our country and we are all afforded the opportunity to study as much as we want and can choose the
Life we live right? Work hard at school and get a good job. It’s simple. Do you think the previous generations moaned as much as we did? My grandad was a miner for 50 years, he didn’t moan just got on with it.
@@sasproductions701 they have broken n laws, people choose to work there and get paid. They literally did nothing wrong and have a business to run
Minimum wage minimum effort, I say...
unfortunately they want to pay us the minimum wage but expect people to give 110% all day everyday and if you can't do that then they will give your job to someone else. I worked in stocktaking and we would be lucky to get 8 hours a day paid work, they even take the 30 mins break (15 mins in some stores) from our wages. we never got paid for travel which meant we usually had to sit in the van for around 3-5 hours to the job and 3-5 hours back, sometimes we would spend more hours traveling than working! I worked there for 3 years and never missed a shift and I ended up getting fired for miscounting toilet paper! I think it is disgraceful how people are treated in work now, the majority of staff I worked with had drug or alcohol problems simply due to the stress of the job, the company then put a policy in place so if anyone was caught drinking on a business trip (even after work) they would fire the full van of 9 people even if the others were in there rooms! I complained to the manager saying that it would be unfair for me to be fired because of other peoples actions which resulted in me getting a verbal warning. No wonder people have problems with depression when we are treated like this just to be paid the absolute minimum they can.
At last someone else says the same! Haha
@@alistairstuart2009 well if people are sacked unfairly which is the case if you are punished for other peoples actions, then simply use your right to take the company to an unfair dismissal tribunal which will be a slam dunk under the above reasons.
@@TheRealEraser Nope.
What is Unfair Dismissal?
Unfair dismissal is where an employee claims against an employer that the decision to dismiss was unfair.
To qualify to bring an unfair dismissal claim in the Employment Tribunal a person must meet a number of criteria:
They must be an employee (rather than self-employed or, in most cases, working through an agency)
They must normally have at least two years continuous employment (subject to certain exceptions)
They must be in employment that has a sufficient connection to Great Britain
They are within the 3 month time primary limit for bringing a claim to the Employment Tribunal
Yep I work at a place they paid me minimum wage so they got minimum. They recently put it up to 1.20 over minimum so I now work a little harder but ive now been told I've probably only got another 2 weeks work and I'll be back to square one at another place. Hate being on agency but it's the only way to find work now adays
Slavery never ended, it is just subject to more regulation.
depends how you look at it, isn't football just "11 men kicking a ball"
1 They choose to work there
2 They get paid
3 You’re an idiot
@@dylanmurphy572 they have to work somewhere to pay bills. Getting another job isn't exactly easy so there isn't much choice.
Also minimum wage workers are given a ridiculous workload and are not paid nearly enough
Slave labour was never abolished , just brassed over over time .
I Will never shop at Jd again...... if I worked there I would knock people out
Vasili agreed
Vasili are things still like this
@@mrrumpledumple2132 why? Tell me why you ask? Go on...
@John Msx oooh your a beta
Well thats just warehouse work
Every large scale multi national warehouse is like this. Not just JD or sports direct. Sainsburys, asda, etc
Sainsburys arnt too bad actually.
I worked at Tesco distribution, and it's exactly like this except we drove LLOP's, loads more foreigners and we got paid more than minimum wage.
@@StepByStepStudiothe Tesco Distrubution I worked at (not as an agency worker, thankfully) was 80% Eastern European workers, even those employed by Tesco. 99p Stores was the same, a large proportion of the management were Polish or Romanian.
I've worked at a sainsburys distribution centre and it is 100% like this.
Welcome to tory Britain.
sbarmyman at least the Middle East is stable these days
Ste T bring back MP Alan B'Stard
Lol you think if it was a different government this company would act differently 🤣🤣🤣. You think that because Tories are in government that that's a good enough excuse to treat people like this.
Paul Smith exactly, thinking that Jeremy ‘Hamas/IRA’ Corbyn can sort this out is pure Unicorn thinking
Ste T government by nature will never sort anything out. Left or right they all work fr the establishment .
I honestly wouldn't last an hour working somewhere like that. I'm a machine operator in a factory and used to working at a fast pace and having targets to achieve, also being uncomfortably hot in the summer but the flip side is we're paid fairly with a generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, nearly 2 weeks off for Christmas and a decent company pension. We are also treated with respect by management . If a supervisor or manager working at our company spoke to people in the manner shown in this video then they would rightly be out of a job. How companies can get away with this in 2023 is a disgrace!
This was 6 years ago, so not 2023.
It's still happening in 2023, I can assure you. Royal Mail are one of the worst offenders. They treat their staff and also their customers like dirt. We've regressed back to Victorian attitudes. Bullying, intimidation, favouritism, lying to staff, spying on them ( sorry, tracking them ! ). Awful way to treat a workforce, all because of greed
@@MrAngry-im3ol there's absolutely no context for your claims to be considered accurate.
@JB-el3mo not believing a stranger's hysterical screeching online isn't being in denial mate. It's being sane.
@@mydogeatspuke Still the same now
"if that was a designer watch you'd get a strike" said whilst hes wearing a G Shock watch... 😂
Every watch is designed by someone so where do they draw the line? Ridiculous
EpicGurth They’ll assume that you stole from the warehouse hence no branded clothing/ items
Designer labels
@@JonathanEvans6 It is a power thing to put us plebs in our place